FINANCIAL TIMES
Private sector companies would play a big part in running a revamped secondary school system in a second Labour term.
Keele University has spun off a company to exploit breakthroughs in high density data storage.
Industrialised nations and pharmaceutical companies have a responsibility to tackle disease in Africa, says Jeffrey Sachs, director of the centre for international development at Harvard University.
GUARDIAN
The Liberal Democrats yesterday pledged to abolish tuition fees for higher education as part of a package that they claimed would provide free education for all.
Scientists in the developing world have made use of the human genome data more than 300,000 times in the past two months.
Second article in a series on the power of drug firms tells how they reach the heart of government in the United States.
DAILY TELEGRAPH
Prime minister Tony Blair sounded the death knell for comprehensive education yesterday, admitting it had failed many pupils during the past 35 years.
Young women who suffer a heart attack are more likely to die if they are taking older "second generation" contraceptive pills than newer brands, according to research at Southampton University.
TIMES
We have only 10,000 more genes than a worm. Does this mean that our environment is more important than our genetic make-up? Not at all, says science writer Nigel Hawkes.
MISCELLANY
Ministers have been fending off claims from within the Labour Party that they were planning to create a two-tier secondary education system and reintroduce selection. ( Guardian , Independent , Times )
A spacecraft the size of a small car last night parked itself on the solar system's most desolate destination - an asteroid 196m miles from the Earth. ( Guardian , Independent )
The publicly funded Human Genome Project yesterday launched a blistering attack on its commercial rivals for allegedly attempting to "privatise" the "book of life". ( Independent , Daily Telegraph )